Electrical outlet assembly
AssigneeThe Wiremold Company
InventorsPeter Currier, John Chapdelaine, Thomas Russo
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Abstract
A device bracket, or outlet box assembly, has openings for receiving projecting portions of an electrical outlet device, or other socket defining device, such that one of these projecting portions can be hooked in place by the installer, so that the other projecting portion can be pushed into place in a one handed installation step. The said other projecting portion being resiliently deformable so as to latch into place.
Claims7
In an electrical distribution system having wires that are accessed at predetermined locations for installation of electrical devices, and the distribution system further including device brackets for the devices, the improvement to such devices and brackets comprising:
- a molded polymeric device housing having at least one socket defining portion in a front face thereof, and having means for coupling the wires to said socket defining portion rearwardly of said front face,
- a device bracket having a relieved cavity for receiving said device, said device bracket having opposed keeper openings, and
- said device housing having rearwardly projecting portions at opposite ends of said socket defining portion of said device housing, one of said of rearwardly projecting portions being rigid and adapted to fit into one of said opposed keeper openings, the other of said projecting portions being resiliently deformable and defining an abutment end portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.